India: Enterprise in Birth Control

India's government usually holds capitalistic
impulses tightly in check. There is another impulse, however, that it
has failed to curb, and so it is asking free enterprise for help in
the most private of all sectors: birth control. Still far from its goal
of keeping the growth of a highly fecund population (more than 500
million now) within the nation's food-producing capability, the Health
and Family Planning Ministry has decided to enlist some of India's
largest companies to distribute government-subsidized rubber condoms.

The government's 2,500 family-planning centers have been giving away
those...